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Banning cars in a city or some part of a city is a step in the process of making a city where you don't need a car. Removing the traffic, exhaust, & safety risk
by ip26 8y ago
Banning cars in a city or some part of a city is a step in the process of making a city where you don't need a car. Removing the traffic, exhaust, & safety risk to other users helps make biking, walking, bussing, and rail faster, safer, & more pleasant.
- closeparen 8y agoTraffic is irrelevant for trains. It has some effect on buses, which can be mitigated with HOV lanes. (Usually the problem there is frequency and a lack of express service). At the distances most people need to travel to reach their workplaces from affordable housing, walking and cycling are never going to be pleasant. Banning cars from a city is a straight-up transfer of quality of life from the suburban masses to the richest in the center. Drastically increasing high-rise housing supply in the center is a much more meaningful step.
- ip26 8y agoDrastically increasing high-rise housing supply in the center is a much more meaningful step. What are you going to do with all those extra cars? Traffic is irrelevant for trains Not for trolleys!
- closeparen 8y agoNothing. Developers can dig garages if they care to, or not if they don’t. We’ve already established that driving in the urban core is unreasonable, so congestion is not a concern. Trolleys are just buses with fewer degrees of freedom.